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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stapleton reveal that shocks Watson?
(a) Stapleton knows that Sherlock Holmes is looking into the death of Sir Charles.
(b) He was with Sir Charles the night he died.
(c) He knew Sir Henry from school.
(d) He is planning on moving into Baskerville Hall.

2. What does Sir Henry receive the morning he meets Holmes?
(a) A walking stick.
(b) A letter.
(c) A telegram from Canada.
(d) A bank note.

3. How does Holmes spend his day after the departure of Dr. Mortimer and Watson?
(a) Doing cocaine and thinking.
(b) Playing violin and thinking.
(c) Drinking and thinking.
(d) Smoking and thinking.

4. When Dr. Mortimer arrives at the rooms, what is revealed that annoys Holmes?
(a) Holmes's deduction are completely wrong.
(b) Holmes find the doctor to be rude.
(c) Holmes does not appreciate the doctor just stopping in unannounced.
(d) Holmes's deductions are mostly, but not completely accurate.

5. What would Dr. Mortimer like to do?
(a) Take Holmes and Watson to dinner.
(b) Play violin with Holmes.
(c) Write a letter to Holmes.
(d) Study Holmes's skull.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dr. Mortimer deduce that Sir Charles had stood at the gate for five to ten minutes?

2. How does Watson know Barrymore is lying?

3. How does Holmes spend his time before meeting with Sir Henry in the afternoon following their first meeting?

4. What does Holmes have Watson send up to him?

5. What word is the only one not taken from a newspaper with Sir Henry's object?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on Watson's examination of the walking-stick, how does he describe Dr. Mortimer?

2. Why does Watson now suspect Barrymore is the murderer?

3. What is Hugo's evil act, as relayed in the manuscript?

4. Why is the reappearance of Sir Henry's brown boot a mystery?

5. How does Watson feel about Sir Henry?

6. Who is Selden and why is he significant to everyone?

7. Why is Holmes disappointed in Dr. Mortimer?

8. What is significant about Holmes's deduction that Sir Charles was actually running?

9. What was wrong with Holmes's deductions of Dr. Mortimer?

10. Why does Watson say that Sir Henry appears to have inherited the Baskerville temper?

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